The incident was captured
in a 10-minute cellphone video recorded by one of the students and posted to
YouTube. It shows 68-year-old Karen Klein trying her best to ignore the stream
of profanity, insults and outright threats directed at her. At one point in the
video, she breaks down in tears.
By early Wednesday, the video had gone viral, and by Thursday
morning, it had been viewed more than 1.5 million times on YouTube.
Outrage over Klein's treatment on the bus led to an outpouring
of support. The international crowd funding site Indiegogo.com had raised more than $239,000 by
Thursday to send the grandmother of eight on a vacation.
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